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Copy LTI links with secrets

Idea created by jg21107 on Jun 12, 2017

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I am using LTI links to moodle tests. We have a school who use moodle and we want them to use Blackboard.

Converting all the tests would be problematic.

We can use LTI to link to the tests - but each moodle test has a separate url and key.

This works fine for the course we add them to, but when we copy the courses for the next year all the links break. Blackboard say this is functioning as designed.

My idea is to have LTI links that can be copied with their secrets even if they have different secrets for the same provider.

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brad.evans Jun 16, 2017 10:28 AM
Hi, Joseph. Can you offer more detail about why converting the tests would be problematic? It seems like that would avoid the LTI shortcoming.
Thanks,
Brad
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- jg21107 @ brad.evans on Jun 16, 2017 10:49 AM
  We have the Blackboard course conversion tool (and Respondus4) - there are about 2000 tests to convert/link
  The moodle tests include random block questions (which don't appear to copy)
  Moodle has the hot spot tests and the pictures on these dont copy
  Finally moodle has "Multiple choice" with an option to select more than one answer (in Blackboard these are different types Multiple Choice and Multiple Answer).
  Moodle Multiple choices with more than 1 answer become a Blackboard Multiple choice with the answer set to A
  
  However I found another way to solve the problem - set blackboard to use the same secret key for all links (which was suggested by Blackboard). Then I went into the moodle server and set all the secret keys to the same thing.
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  - brad.evans @ jg21107 on Jul 1, 2017 1:28 PM
    Ah, ok. Thank you for the additional detail. I'll share this among a couple of my team mates to see if there's any other alternative other than the one you described.
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  - bmundy @ jg21107 on Jul 2, 2017 1:53 PM
    Hi Joseph, is your ideal situation to have these tests converted and natively available in Learn? What version of the Course Conversion tool are you using? We have recently made additional enhancements to this tool to make the Moodle > Learn conversion more robust.
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    - jg21107 @ bmundy on Jul 3, 2017 4:01 AM
      Hi Brent
      Yes that would be my ideal solution. I am using 4.2
      Regards
      Joseph
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      - bmundy @ jg21107 on Jul 3, 2017 9:33 AM
        Thanks, Joseph. Will you send me an example course export we can use for testing plus any additional information that you think might be helpful? I understand the following are not coming through the conversion from Moodle:
        
        Random block questions
        Hot Spot questions
        Multiple Answer
        
        My email is brent.mundy@blackboard.com.
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